Word: nearly
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...said, for instance, that Near Earth Objects are a valid concern because of the damage they can cause if they crash into earth...
There are an estimated 2000 Near Earth Objects which have not yet been identified, he said...
Indeed, staying near the lead was the key to Harvard's first place finish overall. In the Division A sub-standings, Harvard was second to Tufts, with BU behind in fourth. In Division B, Harvard was second to BU, and Tufts ended up third. As a result, the Crimson concluded with the low point total of 175. BU followed with 179 and Tufts was third with...
...McKellen, we'll have you know--and he will too--is not an old man, though you wouldn't guess that from his two new movies. He plays the frail, 67-year-old movie director James Whale in Gods and Monsters, and a Nazi near 80 in Apt Pupil. "People must think I'm in my 70s," he says with a sigh. "My danger is being typecast older than I am." But that, ladies and gentlemen, is Acting. Sir Ian is a lithe 59, two years junior to Redford, Nicholson, Hoffman. He doesn't care to be cast forever...
...Lord, 65, lies withering from cancer, aware that death is near, the memory that floats back is not from any of her three marriages. Rather, it is of Lord's first love, a passionate affair with a young doctor that lasted only the length of a friend's weekend wedding festivities. While Lord's four children maintain a death watch, she relives every minute of that fateful weekend and encounters snippets of memory from other points in her life that flesh out the affair's consequences. In her powerful third novel Susan Minot mesmerizes with her convincing evocation of Lord...